July 2010

July 08, 2010

recently, a young woman came into rock paper scissors fresh from oasis day spa with the most fabulous color on her fingernails. it was a truly mesmerizing color. at once stunning, sumptuous, stylish, sassy. she told me it was called "crystal eyes" by SpaRitual. i could see right into her nail color and through to the other side to deep ocean caribbean blues and teals (ahhh, calgon, take me away!). being more of the "ballet slippers" type, i wasn't sure i could pull it off. then i started to search around. all the celebrities are wearing it (shown here, jessicas simpson & alba).

i knew the color looked incredibly familiar, when it dawned on me that waste not paper, our popular bulk paper supplier, had just announced its latest summer colors, one of them being peacock (along with persimmon, sunshine, and kraft). it was almost a dead on match. and while i loved it on paper, would I dare brush it on my own toenails??

i decided to go for it. on first glance, i hated it. by the tenth or so glance, i started to get used to it. by the time i was ready to take it off, i actually kinda liked it. i'd say the moral of the story is that some colors are just best left on paper (like waste not's new colors in peacock, persimmon, sunshine, and kraft)! i think i'll try persimmon next - much more tame for the toes.

but if you're feeling more adventurous, here are some other nail colors to consider:

July 02, 2010

it can be difficult to capture the attention of the next generation, or as I like to call them, the txt generation. but if you had a card that speaks their language, you might be able to get through. this "chat" series from copper willow is fun:

jst kp ur writing to a min and abbrvi8 whrvr pssbl: OMG. TMI. FYI. TTYL.LMAO. it's really nothing new. when I was a kid it was pig latin. in a decade or so there'll be a new version.

on a side note, i put in a personal request for "FML" but they didn't know what it meant!

note: if you're reading this and don't know what any of the abbreviations stand for, the company was smart and wrote it on the inside!

maybe you're more of the social media type. we've got some cards for you, too, from L2 design collective: